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Increasing Speed of Greenland Glaciers Gives New Insight for Rising Sea Level
May 3, 2012 — Changes in the speed that ice travels in more than 200 outlet glaciers indicates that Greenland's contribution to rising sea level in the 21st century might be significantly less than the upper ... > full story -
Cassini to Probe Enceladus Gravity, Take Pictures
May 1, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be flying within about 46 miles (74 kilometers) of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, May 2, aiming primarily to learn more about the moon's internal structure. The ... > full story -
Cassini, Saturn Moon Photographer
May 3, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Saturn's moons Enceladus and Dione during close flybys on May 2, 2012, capturing these raw images. The flybys were the last close encounters of these ... > full story -
Arctic Sea-Ice Loss Didn't Happen by Chance
May 2, 2012 — The ongoing rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice is often interpreted as the canary in the mine for anthropogenic climate change. In a new study, scientists have now systematically examined the validity ... > full story -
New Form of Lava Flow Discovered on Mars
April 26, 2012 — High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells. Such patterns have been found in a few locations on Earth, but never before on ... > full story -
Warm Ocean Currents Cause Majority of Ice Loss from Antarctica
April 25, 2012 — Warm ocean currents are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, new research shows. New techniques have been used to differentiate, for the first time, between the two known causes of ... > full story -
Saturn's Giant Moon: How Long Has Titan's Chemical Factory Been in Business?
April 25, 2012 — Saturn's giant moon Titan hides within a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well-known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. It's a productive "factory" ... > full story -
Study Finds Surprising Arctic Methane Emission Source
April 24, 2012 — The fragile and rapidly changing Arctic region is home to large reservoirs of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. As Earth's climate warms, the methane, frozen in reservoirs stored in Arctic tundra ... > full story -
Geophysicists Employ Novel Method to Identify Sources of Global Sea Level Rise
April 24, 2012 — As the Earth's climate warms, a melting ice sheet produces a distinct pattern of sea level change known as its sea level fingerprint. Now, geophysicists have found a way to identify the sea level ... > full story -
Diversity Aided Mammals’ Survival Over Deep Time
April 23, 2012 — The first study of how mammals in North America adapted to climate change in “deep time” found that families with greater diversity were more stable and maintained larger ranges than less ... > full story
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